Free speech is not without carefully designated exceptions, folks.

Public universities can maintain reasonable “time, place, and manner” restrictions on speech——as long as they’re reasonable, necessary, and content-neutral.

He’s a journalist who is allowed to monetize his reporting.

You’re a U.S. Senator hosting your own super PAC’s podcast to funnel money into your reelection efforts. Paid by a media company who lobbies your office.

The chilling show of force on UT's campus is a disproportionate response to an apparently peaceful protest. Sending in a phalanx of law enforcement threatens protected speech where it should be at its most free: a public university like UT Austin.

Unfortunately, Gov. Abbott’s…

Governor Jeff Landry/Jeff Landry makes his own bad press 🤣

Louisiana Legislators are literally trying to destroy public education. It’s all about $$$ in their pockets. (Most charter schools are For Profit.)
The “pro life” party is so anti child that they won’t feed or educate children once they are born. #lalege #lagov

Wrote this to the paper today. Don’t say I didn’t warn you… I’ll post my KPLC Interview tomorrow.
#lalege #lagov #homesteadexemption #concon

New: Bombshell documents discovered through a public records request show oil companies can pay $5 million to vote on LSU's Institute for Energy research thelensnola.org/2024/04/19/lsu…

#Lalege when child workers ask for a lunch break

A Louisiana House committee has voted to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks.

Rep. Roger Wilder sponsored the child labor bill, and owns Smoothie Kings across the South.

He says people are too critical of his bill.
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🧵Forcing citizens to parrot the government’s beliefs is as un-American — and unconstitutional — as it gets … but tell that to Louisiana’s governor.

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A private editorial choice on a social media platform is just that—private!

We stopped by the Supreme Court this morning to chat with FIRE Chief Counsel Bob Corn-Revere about why the cases Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton are so important for the First Amendment.

JUST IN: Tucker Carlson blasts Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham and Dan Crenshaw for being warmongers with their responses to the Israel-Hamas war.

Carlson specifically blasted Graham for 'not caring' about lost lives because he is nearly 70 years old with no kids.

'What exactly…

There should be criminal accountability in this case.
There are people in prison for decades for doing far, far less. Norfolk Southern negligently poisoned a town.

This is unusual.

Listen to this moment from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hearing.

Congress: The guys on Wallstreet are really not happy with your agency... This is the clientele you should be helping.

CFPB: The clientele of the CFPB is not banks; it is the public.

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🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: While bailing out Silicon Valley Bank's wealthy clients, federal regulators quietly refused to guarantee the bank's financial commitments to low-income communities.

The decision could now kill major affordable housing projects. levernews.com/regulators-sti…

Rand Paul Take your prayers and shove them up your ass

You can’t make this up. Just 10 days after shooting down a bill to provide free lunch to low-income students, the North Dakota Senate approved legislation to give lawmakers more money for meal reimbursements.

They’re giving themselves free lunch, but not kids.

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NEW: DHL delivery drivers were violently arrested while peacefully striking last month in Rhode Island.

Picketers were attacked by police in riot gear and suffered broken ribs, a fractured tailbone & concussions.

The drivers have been on strike since June. (TW: police violence)